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@error That's a deliberate , not an accidental ♭♯♮.
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It provides a large and very visible sign that "technology is deployed in this location; please adjust your level of seriousness appropriately".
Thank you! I approve.
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@dkf Hi dkf, thank you for your comment, In my formative youth, we debugged embedded hardware with ICE. Now in my old age I still hack C++ and VB.Net stuff.
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
@error That's a deliberate , not an accidental ♭♯♮.
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
@error That's a deliberate , not an accidental ♭♯♮.
I call that a "Bear Trap" pattern.
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umm ... I don't think that's where I want to advertise.
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What a terrible day to have eyes.
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Advertising vs Centipedes
Which is worse?
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Yes.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
Advertising vs Centipedes
Which is worse?
If you want to combine the both I have a great movie for you to watch.
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Mechanical Turks falling out of fashion, news at 11.
The technology allows customers to skip checkout altogether by scanning a QR code when they enter the store. Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped.
The technology
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
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So I played with Razor pages. I have a list of data, pairs of DateTime and Int32. Let me create an image map with them, that is a line chart where you can hover the mouse over it and get a tooltip shown with the date and the value.
What built-in control may I use for that purpose?
TheChartControl
is part of "classic" Asp.Net (upto 4.8). But when I created the Razor pages project, I selected .Net 8.
What's the alternative?
EmbedJavaScript
: a library calledchart.js
.
No, I do not want to add such a fucking unreliable dependency!
Well, I could do it the way I created
imagemap
s 20 years ago: create aBitmap
, save it to a file accessible by the web server, embed the link, and write theimagemap html
into a string at an appropriate place.
Since the 20 years old web page actually works on Azure, this may be feasable. But it is not .Net 8...Not today anymore.
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@BernieTheBernie I will say in its defence that chart.js is one of the less insane packages out there of all the things you could have foisted upon you. But I feel you on the image map front.
I do wonder what the behaviour is with getting tooltips on an image map on a tablet though.
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@Arantor Can't you plug in a
squirrelmouse in your tablet?
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
@Arantor Can't you plug in a
squirrelmouse in your tablet?Inconvenient therefore
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@Arantor Yes, tablets are inconvenient. I agree.
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In Thunderbird, if an event crosses over a DST transition, you can— well:
It doesn’t need to cover multiple days, that just makes the end time clear in the video. This also happens if the event is long enough to span the transition before and after dragging – in fact that makes the end time advance for both moves.
Related annoyance: I can’t set up an event for the start of DST, which occurs at 2 AM standard time – it will consistently bump that to 3 AM every time I try. I’ve had to settle for making it 1:59. With enough effort I found a way to specify the time zone, but that subscribes to the ‘timezones are cities’ brainworm so I can’t just specify 0200+1000. I suppose I could make it 2 AM Brisbane time…
edit: nope, apparently the entire hour of 2 AM doesn‘t exist in Brisbane. That’s just wrong.
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@kazitor I don't know what kind of DST transition you have on your time zone (), but here 1:59 AM wouldn't even exist since we jump from would-be 1AM straight to 2AM.
Edit: you've edited your post while I was trying to watch the video. :|
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edit: nope, apparently the entire hour of 2 AM doesn‘t exist in Brisbane. That’s just wrong.
That ain't wrong, that's how it works. 1:59 AM is followed by 3:00 AM during the transition.
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@kazitor Standard to DST. The other is more tricky because there the 2:00 AM is duplicated … now that is the more interesting case to try.
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@kazitor Standard to DST. The other is more tricky because there the 2:00 AM is duplicated … now that is the more interesting case to try.
Not in Brisbane, which doesn't observe DST.
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@Watson Ah, ok, that's … weird, yes.
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I think the lesson to learn here is not to schedule meetings past midnight of Friday to Saturday.
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I think the lesson to learn here is not to schedule meetings past midnight of Friday to Saturday.
Meetings are like mogwai?
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I think the lesson to learn here is not to schedule meetings past midnight of Friday to Saturday.
Meetings are like mogwai?
Given that we never learn how far after midnight it theoretically becomes safe to feed a mogwai, we can extrapolate that we never learn how far after midnight it is safe to schedule a meeting.
I propose that the entire window of 00:00:00 to 23:59:59 (23:59:60 on leap second instances) be marked as unsafe for that reason.
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1:59 AM is followed by 3:00 AM during the transition.
What transition?
I never thought the gender question would evolve into timezones, but I suppose it was inevitable...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
1:59 AM is followed by 3:00 AM during the transition.
What transition?
I never thought the gender question would evolve into timezones, but I suppose it was inevitable...
With respect to DST, Arizona is hermaphroditic.
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Safety first!
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People are cleaning the button? How will pushing it kill them, then? I mean, in order for you to push it you will probably have to get the cleaners out of the way first, so they’re not cleaning it anymore and therefore presumably safe from whatever will cause them harm while cleaning the button.
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Like it or loathe it, WooCommerce is a major brand name in its field. And it’s owned by Automattic, the company that owns WordPress.
And until relatively recently, the site was WooCommerce.com
They had a rebrand, become just Woo, even to the point of acquiring woo.com to do it.
They announced over the weekend that after consulting with a team of SEO experts, they’re reverting back to the longer domain.
Apparently it was harder to find them online, and “Google’s March update” made it worse so they’re going back to the brand they spent years building.
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They had a rebrand, become just Woo, even to the point of acquiring woo.com to do it.
They announced over the weekend that after consulting with a team of SEO experts, they’re reverting back to the longer domain.It still surprises me how few people understand that neologisms and joinedwords are easier to search for, because they have narrow meaning, which makes them much better as brands than words with common meaning.
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@Bulb this is where I'll mention (once more) one of the main French ISPs/mobile phones network, called... "Free."
Though tbf, they are so large here that (I assume) Google and the like have optimised their search results (in France) so that "free [anything vaguely related to ISP/mobile phone" tends to include at least one result from their site, not too far down.
Still a pain to search for anything.
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@remi I'm looking forward to their rebranding into "Free/Libre"
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They had a rebrand, become just Woo, even to the point of acquiring woo.com to do it.
They announced over the weekend that after consulting with a team of SEO experts, they’re reverting back to the longer domain.It still surprises me how few people understand that neologisms and joinedwords are easier to search for, because they have narrow meaning, which makes them much better as brands than words with common meaning.
Especially short words that have meaning that isn’t flattering to their cause. Woo, aside from having a meaning about soliciting interest, is also a slang word for quackery.
I heard use of the word woo to encompass homeopathy and chiropractic before I learned the dictionary definition…
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I heard use of the word woo to encompass homeopathy and chiropractic before I learned the dictionary definition…
To be fair, homeopathy and chiropractication seems geared toward wooing people, after a manner.
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I want to commit unspeakable acts of violence to the person who designed the animated background of this page:
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@HardwareGeek It's not animated. It's a static image that's
cover
ing the whole height of the page, which is changing because the gazillion-slide carousel at the bottom has images both portrait and landscape.TL;DR: at its finest
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@TwelveBaud Why is the slide carousel so fast? What is it, like 1 second per image?
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
I want to commit unspeakable acts of violence to the person who designed the animated background of this page:
The culprit is mentioned at the bottom of the page. If you can keep that on-screen long enough to click on it, you can get to http://coolwinddesign.com
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
Let me create an image map with them, that is a line chart where you can hover the mouse over it and get a tooltip shown with the date and the value.
Actually, old style imagemaps use pixel graphics. And after resizing the browser window, there size stays the same, except when you add extra code for generating a new version.
Isn't there such a thing a a vector graphic?
Yes: Scalable Vector Graphics, short SVG. Found a nice tutorial about them in moon language.And how can I create SVGs with Razor?
Btw, is SVG support also such shitty with Angular or php?
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
Btw, is SVG support also such shitty with Angular or php?
We used to do SVG graph rendering in raw PHP. The fact that was shitty code was not SVG's fault.
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If in doubt, add yet more XML to your SVG. What’s the worst that could happen?